Informationen zum Autor Wyckoff, New Jersey, attorney Andres Wirkmaa is a retired baseball coach, has served as official scorekeeper for amateur baseball leagues, has been featured on the radio and in MLB articles as a scorekeeping expert, and is a member of SABR. Klappentext With the aim of providing anyone interested in baseball scorekeeping everything he or she needs to perform the task, this book contains a thorough and comprehensive manual on keeping a scorecard, together with a detailed analysis of each of the numerous, and often complex, official rules governing scorekeeping in baseball (many of which were revised or modified in 2007), as well as scorekeeping issues outside of MLB's rulebook. Myriad examples are given (many drawn from significant and well-known major league games throughout the history of baseball as well as a number of examples drawn from popular culture) of how baseball's scorekeeping rules are applied and dealt with in both routine situations as well as the most difficult and convoluted scenarios. Revised and updated to reflect recent changes to the MLB rulebook, this book is very readable and perfectly accessible to a broad audience. Zusammenfassung With the aim of providing anyone interested in baseball scorekeeping everything he or she needs to perform the task! this book contains a thorough and comprehensive manual on keeping a scorecard! together with a detailed analysis of each of the numerous! and often complex! official rules governing scorekeeping in baseball! as well as scorekeeping issues outside of MLB's rulebook. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The "Dying Art"The Art of Keeping Score1. Who's on First? Finding Your Way Around the Scorecard2. What Just Happened? Getting the Basics Down3. Where and When Did It Happen? Filling in the Details4. How Did It Happen? Digging DeeperThe Official Scorekeeping Rules and Their Applications5. Getting to Know Rule 96. Speaking in Generalities: Rules 9.01-9.037. Batter Up! Rules 9.04-9.068. To Catch a Thief: Rule 9.079. God Said to Abraham, Kill Me a Son: Rule 9.0810. Playing the Field: Rules 9.09-9.1111. To Err Is Human: Rule 9.1212. Free Passes and Punched Tickets: Rules 9.13-9.1513. You Get What You Deserve: Rule 9.1614. Winning Isn't Everything: Rules 9.17-9.1815. Saving the Day: Rule 9.1916. Stats and Streaks: Rules 9.20-9.23Index...

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Wyckoff, New Jersey, attorney Andres Wirkmaa is a retired baseball coach, has served as official scorekeeper for amateur baseball leagues, has been featured on the radio and in MLB articles as a scorekeeping expert, and is a member of SABR.

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With the aim of providing anyone interested in baseball scorekeeping everything he or she needs to perform the task, this book contains a thorough and comprehensive manual on keeping a scorecard, together with a detailed analysis of each of the numerous, and often complex, official rules governing scorekeeping in baseball (many of which were revised or modified in 2007), as well as scorekeeping issues outside of MLB's rulebook. Myriad examples are given (many drawn from significant and well-known major league games throughout the history of baseball as well as a number of examples drawn from popular culture) of how baseball's scorekeeping rules are applied and dealt with in both routine situations as well as the most difficult and convoluted scenarios. Revised and updated to reflect recent changes to the MLB rulebook, this book is very readable and perfectly accessible to a broad audience.

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Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: The "Dying Art"
The Art of Keeping Score

1. Who's on First? Finding Your Way Around the Scorecard
2. What Just Happened? Getting the Basics Down
3. Where and When Did It Happen? Filling in the Details
4. How Did It Happen? Digging Deeper
   The Official Scorekeeping Rules and Their Applications
5. Getting to Know Rule 9
6. Speaking in Generalities: Rules 9.01-9.03
7. Batter Up! Rules 9.04-9.06
8. To Catch a Thief: Rule 9.07
9. God Said to Abraham, Kill Me a Son: Rule 9.08
10. Playing the Field: Rules 9.09-9.11
11. To Err Is Human: Rule 9.12
12. Free Passes and Punched Tickets: Rules 9.13-9.15
13. You Get What You Deserve: Rule 9.16
14. Winning Isn't Everything: Rules 9.17-9.18
15. Saving the Day: Rule 9.19
16. Stats and Streaks: Rules 9.20-9.23
    Index